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Nikon Small World microscopy contest 2021: A few of our favorite images

Enlarge / A small cnidarian called a hydra (green) has attached itself to the cocoon of a caddisfly. (credit: Yen Fook Chew) Microscopy is essential to many areas of science. We use it to look at everything from the small devices we fabricate to the tiny structures inside cells. And microscopy wouldn’t function without input […]

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Bats, bugs, and Attractiveness: The Ideal microscopy Pictures of 2020 

Expand / / Though this might appear to be a pair of lace ribbons, it is really the scales onto the wing of a butterfly. (charge: Don Komarechka) I really don’t understand how many years I have been putting together picture galleries of this Nikon Small World Microscopy competition , however it has been quite […]